Bulleted list

Rather than make a series of short entries, I’m putting them in one long bulleted list because I’m efficient (or lazy) like that.

Thank you, Law & Order producers, for reinstating the non-remixed version of the original theme. Some dolt decided adding more percussion to the big timpani of the theme song would fit well with the show’s remodeling. It didn’t. I wouldn’t have noticed it if I hadn’t been out of reach of the TiVo remote. I usually fast-forward through the opening.

A few episodes back, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit opened with a shot of Christopher Meloni in his BVDs. I will admit to slowing down the TiVo to catch a glimpse of his crotch.

While I’m still on the topic of Law & Order, does anyone like what they’ve done to Criminal Intent? A friend of mine pointed to a series of posts by James Wolcott describing the make-over a “CSI-zation” of the show, and I just don’t find it very … Law & Order. I miss Jamey Sheridan.

It sounds like Gilmore Girls, and it feels like Gilmore Girls but at this point, you can really tell the Paladinos have left the building.

I know it’s just a TV show, but how can Rory Gilmore go through four years at Yale without befriending one gay person? I had a secret wish that the next time we see Marty, he would have a boyfriend in tow. I don’t know why.

Now that Friday Night Lights has been picked up for a full season, I guess my pontificating about it being “brilliant but canceled” may have been premature. I guess we’ll see whether it gets a second season.

I didn’t watch the fall season finale of Lost, but I listened to it while I battled a Windows XP installation. I can’t say I was impressed with what I heard.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip got a full-season order? Man, NBC must really be sucking. (I really have to remove that Season Pass on the TiVo.)

John Oliver is turning out to be the new star correspondent on The Daily Show. Hearing him talk urban in an English accent while maintaining newscaster intonation? Oh man …